att.delete.nc {RNetCDF} | R Documentation |
Delete a NetCDF attribute.
att.delete.nc(ncfile, variable, attribute)
ncfile |
Object of class " |
variable |
ID or name of the attribute's variable, or |
attribute |
The name of the attribute to be deleted. |
This function deletes a NetCDF attribute from a NetCDF dataset open for writing.
Pavel Michna
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/
## Create a new NetCDF dataset and define two dimensions nc <- create.nc("att.delete.nc") dim.def.nc(nc, "station", 5) dim.def.nc(nc, "time", unlim=TRUE) ## Create two variables, one as coordinate variable var.def.nc(nc, "time", "NC_INT", "time") var.def.nc(nc, "temperature", "NC_DOUBLE", c(0,1)) ## Put some attributes att.put.nc(nc, "temperature", "missing_value", "NC_DOUBLE", -99999.9) att.put.nc(nc, "NC_GLOBAL", "title", "NC_CHAR", "Data from Foo") ## Delete these attributes att.delete.nc(nc, "temperature", "missing_value") att.delete.nc(nc, "NC_GLOBAL", "title") close.nc(nc)